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Well im not a doctor, only a student, but especially in woman, memory problems can arise from a shortage of iron. It reduces the amount of oxygen that is carried to the brain. It

You probably already saw a doctor, but I thought I'd mention it anyway.

My best wishes!

What is the cause of the memory loss?

I feel the need to reply.

Although there are many reported cases of holy men in India living of nothing, prayer, sunlight or other etherial substances, it is important to realize that (not counting all the fakes) these men still drink water.

Water in the western world is considered a drink with no nutrient content, the story is quite different for primitive India.

Many of such holy men drink from the river Ganghes or other sacret rivers. Taking the river Ganghes as example, it is absolutely loaded with nutrients from varied sources, such as the remains of partly cremated corpses that are thrown in the Ganghes as part of funerals, the excrements of people relieving themselves in the river, the food remains of washed out pans and various other sources.

This water would not become someone who wasnt used to it very well, but if you are used to bad conditions and accept greater health-risk, you might very well be able to live of the water, especially if your primary activity exists out of sitting on a rock meditating.

Arabs wipe out palms and Israelis bring them back. :)

what is BP

heh Chocolate covered vegetables: the new way to make children healthy!

Where did Sanskrit originate? Is it still spoken?
Stephen
Mountain View, California

Dear Stephen:
The Sanskrit language first emerged around 2,000 to 1,000 B.C.E. (before the common era). It's one of the oldest languages still in existence, and linguists have grouped it with the Indo-European languages, such as French, German, and English, which may share a common ancestor language. It isn't entirely clear where Sankrit originated, but it probably came from the Indus Valley, in what is now Pakistan and northwestern India.
Since its beginning, Sanskrit has been used primarily by people in the upper classes of society. Educated, high-ranking men and religious scholars spoke and wrote Sanskrit, while most people used other languages (some of which may have developed from Sanskrit). The Vedas, the oldest sacred writings of Hinduism, were written in an early form of Sanskrit, now called Vedic Sanskrit.

Sometime between the seventh and fourth centuries B.C.E., the grammarian Panini standardized the language into a new form, referred to as Classical Sanskrit -- this is the Sanskrit still used today. In addition to the Vedas, many religious works, influential Indian poetry and drama, and early scientific and mathematic documents were originally written in Sanskrit.

In India today, Sanskrit is still a language of higher education and is not commonly spoken, much like classical Latin and Greek in European societies. Sanskrit is one of the 18 official languages of India, even though less than 50,000 people spoke it as of India's 1991 census. In comparison, the most common language, Hindi, is spoken by 30% of India's population of over one billion people.

India's Department of Education promotes the study of Sanskrit in schools throughout the country. Some scholars believe that every Indian language is related to Sanskrit, so learning Sanskrit can be an important background for further education. But Sanskrit has its detractors who say that it's an elitist, archaic language.

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The same counts for this forum LOL

Iif I go searching in archeological books, I will find out other dates? I know Egyptian language is dated to be very old, at least 5000 years.

yeah! I knew you would post some neat pic of a frog if I'd start this thread and ping you. My plan worked!

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Nietsche was wrong. Unless a heartattack makes anyone stronger..

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That sucks, it seems that tree lasting longer than the Egyptian culture only to be wiped out by locals.

nothing to do with archeology ping

Long article but worth it.

SANSKRIT
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrit
The original form, Vedic Sanskrit, was probably in use as early as 1800 BC.



ARCHAIC EGYPTIAN
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian
Archaic Egyptian (before 2600 BC)
Old Egyptian (2600 BC – 2000 BC)



SUMERIAN
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumerian_language
The Sumerian language of ancient Sumer was spoken in Southern Mesopotamia from at least the 4th millennium BCE.



HEBREW
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_Hebrew_language
Biblical Hebrew is further divided into the so called 'Golden Age' Hebrew (1200 BCE to 500 BCE) and 'Silver Age' Hebrew (500 BCE to 60 BCE).

I havent been able to find a wiki page on negev Hebrew, that is the language which is the predecessor of biblical Hebrew, but I remember it was dated at around 4th century BC at least, and some claim it is older. At least Egyptian and Sumerian language is older than Sanskrit.

Gibson is finally making a movie on one such civilization - the Mayans. Disappointing...

It's Gibson. What do you expect? After that passion movie nonsense it is obvious that guy doesn't care about the truth. He has no choice but to make all other cultures look like barbarians like glorify his own.
Anyway, I heard Mayans probably did sacrifice people, but any culture killed out of name of their religion. So I don't see if it matters whether you sacrifice directly to your deity or wipe out entire cultures out of name of your deity.

Maybe both sides are right! Indians DID depict the super nova, but only since the aliens told them about the event.